A 70-year-old man battled to pull out a calf from a pond completely covered with rubbish and litter in southern India.<br /><br />Yusuf Khan, saw something moving amidst a garbage-laden water body in Vijayapur last Friday (December 14). <br /><br />He stopped on the road to observe and was astonished to see a calf struggling to keep its head out of the water. <br /><br />Pulling out the calf was risky work as the approach was slippery and the depth of the water was unknown. <br /><br />Khan quickly tied some branches together and lowered the bundle to the edge of the water to give him a stable ground to stand. He then got down to the dirty water himself and pulled the calf out with a little help from various onlookers. <br /><br />The stray calf, which was slightly injured in one of the horns, ran away, happy to have survived the ordeal. <br /><br />A local teacher, Siddaraju, said: “Yusuf sir’s selfless action not just saved a life, but also made a telling point on how we have ruined our natural resources.” <br /><br />“It’s time we stopped using our ponds as dumping grounds for trash,” he added.
